I personally use WRT54G v6 with no problem with my home & development Asterisk boxes. All production servers are hosted at a data centre to which the story is completely different.
I'm on DSL. My IP almost always changes. Update the firmware with the appropriate version of the router. That is use only the latest firmware for the specific router version. For example: DO NOT install a V4 Router's latest firmware into the V6 Router series. There is no IP caching going on in you Asterisk -- unless you have encoded the latest IP address into the sip.conf. I suspect you may also have bindaddr=0.0.0.0 replaced with bindaddr=<your_ip_address>. Leave this as bindaddr=0.0.0.0 since this is your home * server. I suspect you are using some sort of dynamic domain name services to reflect your IP address. It may be an issue with the dynamic DNS service for your particular account. Additionally back track any changes you may have made on your Asterisk and undo them - while you were trying to figure things out with your dlink connected. There is no need to restart your machine each time. Simply restart your Asterisk service and/or up & down the network interface. That is "ifconfig eth0 down" and a "ifconfig eth0 up" -- to shut down your network card and start it up again. The WRT54G is an excellent consumer class router! I've been using this for a long time. That's one cold root beer and a plate of Fish & Chips. Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard (Rogers @ work) To: 'Chuck Mariotti' ; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:27 AM Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Asterisk caching router's IP Yeah Chucks, I am suspecting that it could be a problem with my new Linksys WRT54G v6. I did not have this problem with my old D-Link router. Reza, as you mentioned in my other topic that you were also using this series, did you have similar problem? Or your IP does not change and so you would not have seen it? May I ask which version of firmware are you using? Thanks, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 5:41 PM To: Richard (Rogers @ work); [email protected] Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Asterisk caching router's IP Not elegant, but could throw a cheapo NAT firewall between. So the Asterisk doesn't know about the IP change. it's the firewall's job (of assuming the firewall can do it without problems). Regards, Chuck From: Richard (Rogers @ work) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June-08-07 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [on-asterisk] Asterisk caching router's IP Hi All, Everytime I my router asquires a new IP from Rogers from their DHCP server after lease expires, my Asterisk will get stuck and no in/out calls can go thru without a reboot. I am suspecting Asterisk is caching this IP. If true, is there a setting somewhere which can stop such caching? Appreciate your suggestion, Richard
